[X-Unix] Setting disk quotas

[Charles Howse]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
>
>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Charles Howse wrote:
>>
>>> HI,
>>> I need to set a disk quota for my daughter.
>>> I've read man edquota and quotaon/off
>>> When I su to root and enter: edquota -u randi
>>> nothing happens.  I was expecting vi to open a temp file and let  
>>> me edit the soft limit.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> I have a few questions for you.
>>
>> 1) have you enabled quotas for the root file system?
>> 2) do the mount option files (as mentioned in man quotaon) exist?  
>> (you may need to create)
>> 3) Is this method of quotas actually supported on OS X with HFS+?
>>
>> The third question is important, as there have been other FreeBSD  
>> utilities that have made it into OS X that aren't supported by a  
>> vanilla install.  There may be another method of setting up quotas  
>> on OS X.  I'll try to look into this myself a bit and get back to  
>> you, probably tomorrow.
>
>
> OK, I've found a complete solution, which I will write up for you  
> tomorrow.  It's marginally involved, so let me do my homework before  
> I send you down a seldom-beaten path.

Hi Eric,
Thank you so much for the offer to help.  However, in the time since I  
wrote, I have solved the issue.  It's working as expected, the only  
thing I need to do is configure the grace period.
Thanks again!